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Word: mapped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Means of communication with Andagoya are extremely irregular and difficult. Avianca renders service from Medellin to Quibdo with PBY-5R planes. From Quibdo to El Yuto, which does not show on any map, you go by launch. From El Yuto to Istmina a jungle trail enables a truck to make its way, though rather difficult in the winter months as the rivet" Certegui may flood the area. From Istmina to Andagoya you have recourse, once again, to a launch. Two days overall of difficult travel, if you are lucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 28, 1949 | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...guided missile, watching the ground by radar, could send a televised radar map to the satellite. A repeater on the satellite could relay the ever-changing map to the missile's launching place. When the target came into view, control officers, watching the relayed map, could send last-minute instructions, by microwave, and steer the missile down on the target's heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Uninhabited Aircraft | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

After having only seen him on the screen, it is pleasant to learn that Jack Haley is no slouch as a comedian, himself. The skits he appears in do not seem as clever as Miss Lillie's, and one of them--"All Over the Map"--is downright painful. But it is difficult not to like Mr. Haley since he has made such an art of portraying the average man without making him out to be also a jerk. Aside from his inescapable, affability, Mr. Haley can be heard in even the farthest reaches of the theater, whether he's speaking...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Playgoer | 2/26/1949 | See Source »

Fortunately for Pitman, Rupert K. Lillio '35, a landscape architect whose hobby is doing research on Cambridge history, had published a map of Cambridge in 1775. From then on the two worked together on the project...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Harvard--1775" To Go On Display This Spring | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...Lillio's map was the result of 10 years of borrowing around archives and delving into ancient land deeds. But Pitman still needed to know just how large these buildings were, what colors they were painted, what the landscaping locked like and even the kinds of fences that had been built--all of it information which seemed impossible to obtain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Harvard--1775" To Go On Display This Spring | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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